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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1918
Page
7
Food committees hold obsolete home cards after collapse of general powers. They wait for Federal Food Administration instructions on proper distribution. A spring attached to a bookmark is described as enabling automatic page turning.
Essay extols buying 2% oz bottles or mixing 4 ounces of sugar with a half pint of boiling water to create a pint of cold and cough syrup. It claims tens of thousands of mothers prepare it yearly for cold relief and asserts rapid, lasting effects for colds bronchitis and catarrh. The Blackburn Products Co. of Dayton Ohio guarantees satisfaction or money back.
Washington Nov 27 The 87th Division and other units fought in Flanders before the armistice and helped force the German evacuation of Ghent. General Peyton C March has not released the cablegram contents yet. The 37th Division earned high French commendation for its actions. The 387th Division mainly formed from Ohio National Guardsmen includes many Athens county men from the 145th 147th 148th Infantry and the 136th artillery.
Arrangements completed for a major Union Thanksgiving Service in Athens to be held at First Christian Church with Ohio University units, military band, Girl Scouts, and reservations. Program led by Prof T N Hoover with chorus, organist Elma Starr, and special numbers. Service begins 10 am and aims to allow early dinner and a football meet at OU field in the afternoon.
Guidance on influenza from Dr Franklin Duane urges calm, rest, and home remedies. It recommends gauze face coverings, avoiding crowds and shared cups, hot baths, ibuprofen not mentioned. emphasizes bed rest two days and gentle tonics like Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Irontic for recovery, plus nasal washes with Sage’s Catarrh Remedy.
The Athens county chapter of the American Red Cross will meet in the courtroom at Athens on Thursday December 1 1918 at 1 pm. Reports of the past year's work will be presented and officers for the next year elected. L G Worstell chair and I M Fosper secretary announce the gathering with a call for a large attendance.
An advertisement touts Schenck's Mandrake Pills as a remedy for biliousness constipation and bilious headache. Priced 25 cents per box, available in uncoated or sugar coated forms from Dr J. H. Schenck & Son of Philadelphia.
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